A warm welcome from another Derbyshire lad, my mum came from near Matlock later on moved to Marston Montgomery and then married my father and moved five miles west into Staffordshire. All farming folk, I grew up on a farm near Alton Towers. I went down to London because my beloved went to the Royal Academy of Music to study singing (performer’s course) and so I got myself a job as a programmer in the West End so we could be together. In 1998 we moved from London to Skye and have been there ever since. Five cats, zero dogs as my three dogs have all recently died in turn, of old age, lots of hens and two donkeys.